Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
From the record
“The Round Barn, Norway Township is a historical building located in rural Norway Township, Winnebago County, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1920 as a dairy and horse barn.”
Wikipedia article Round Barn, Norway Township, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Winnebago County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
Also known as. Iowa Round Barns: The Sixty Year Experiment TR
Township. Norway township
National Register reference number.87000507- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
1 since 2010
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Round Barn, Norway Township
in 2010, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
11 workings within 5 miles of Round Barn, Norway Township: 6 producers, 3 unknowns, 2 past producers.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Scarville, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 12 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 funnel cloud.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
As the evening progressed, the low mentioned above progressed northeast. The dry slot raced northeast into the central United States resulting in another round of thunderstorm development. Intense thunderstorms developed over eastern portions of Kansas and Nebraska, then moved north-northeast into southwest and central Iowa. The storms produced high winds and hail up to an inch in diameter. Winds estimated in excess of 65 mph blew through Council Bluffs. Power lines were downed in the city, causing minor fires. Winds caused damage as they moved into southwest Iowa. Winds gusted to 60 to 75 mph with the stronger storms. High winds overturned a tractor-semitrailer in Interstate 80 south of Adair. Outbuildings were blown down over Union, Cass, Taylor, and Page Counties. A grain bin was blown over east of Dallas Center. Damage was reported in Madison County in the town of Winterset. At least one garage roof was removed by the winds and a utility pole was blown over. During the late evening, the dry punch overtook the storms and they weakened rapidly. High winds from the decaying storms caused damage in north-central Iowa east of Scarville. Two grain bins, a barn, and several trees were downed on a farmstead there. In Cerro Gordo County, lightning struck a barn near Meservey. The barn was set on fire and was totally lost.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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